HUNTSVILLE, Alabama -- Dr. Jacob Oluwoye, a community and regional planning professor at Alabama A&M University, is part of a group undergoing final consideration for membership on a chief panel of the Envrionmental Protection Agency.

Oluwoye, a transportation and environmental health expert, is being vetted by EPA's Scientific Advisory Board for membership on a environmental justice panel, according to a school press release. The EPA is forming a variety
of tools to help identify communities of potential environmental justice
(EJ) concern. These EJ screening tools use a variety of demographic
and environmental variables, combined in different ways.

Oluwoye currently serves on the panels of various Federal agencies,
specifically the National Science Foundation (NSF) and the
Transportation Research Board.